Sentences with phrase «as flight instruments»

Not exact matches

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

X-ray and gamma - ray astronomers use the Crab Nebula as a standard, says astrophysicist Colleen Wilson - Hodge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, so «we need to rethink how we calibrate our instruments.»

Sporting new instruments, as well as refurbished versions of detectors originally used on balloon flights over Antarctica, the refrigerator - sized, 1.4 - ton (1,300 kilogram) ISS - CREAM experiment will be delivered to the space station as part of the 12th SpaceX commercial resupply service mission.

NASA hopes to install a duplicate of the OCO - 2 instrument (originally built as a flight spare) on the International Space Station in 2017, at a cost of roughly $ 120 million.

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to issue a final rule by the end of 2014 to implement section 403 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 regarding the carriage of musical instruments as carry - on baggage or checked baggage on commercial passenger flights operated by U.S. air carriers.

While being the fastest car on earth is a huge goal, Bugatti hasn't forgotten to make sure the cabin will be world - class as well, with high - resolution instrument cluster, a top - flight sound system, hand - crafted cabin materials, controls with improved ease of access, and three types of seats.

The team, which Marc led and provided the logistical support for, deployed from Resolute to Nord Greenland before setting up a rustic field camp on the sea ice for six days, during which time we mechanically drilled the ice to measure thickness, measuring snow depth in a grid pattern along the flight lines as well as dragging instruments along the surface that produced the same measurements for comparison to the airborne data.

In the 1980's he worked on labour rights and then served in the RAAF as an instrument fitter (working as a technician on Flight Simulators and living on Richmond RAAF base).

As a Collateral Duty Inspector in work centers, inspected 45 and repaired 107 aircraft electronic instruments totaling 1,303 man - hours directly contributing to a 60 percent reduction in the work center's daily backlog in support of Carrier Air Wing NINE combat flight operations

Included countless repairs of complex systems that range from flight controls, landing gear, power plants, cockpit instruments, navigation, as well as being responsible for every wire on the jet.

As aircraft mechanics and service technicians gain experience, they may attend classes or otherwise choose to pursue additional certifications that grant privileges to work on specialized flight instruments.